Posted 07 August 2014

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Greetings, nephalem! John Hight here to bring you an update as my team and I prepare to unleash a whole lot of evil on consoles everywhere. I’m pleased to say that on 19th August, just two short weeks from now, you’ll be able to lay waste to Malthael and bring peace to the streets of Westmarch from the comfort of your La-Z-Boy with the release of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls – Ultimate Evil Edition.

The Ultimate Evil Edition is filled with all the features, fast-paced action, and legendary loot included in the Reaper of Souls expansion set, as well as all of the content of the original Diablo III. With a new chapter to play through and the new Crusader class to master, plus the freedom to explore endlessly with Adventure Mode, your path to new heights of power will be literally in your DualShock-wielding hands.

I want to remind everyone to get your pre-orders in if you haven’t already. Doing so will land you a devilishly sweet pair of Infernal Pauldrons, which provide some powerful bonuses for your characters, and they look pretty cool too—a plus considering you can also use them for transmogs (a new feature available in UEE). For those who pre-purchase the game digitally on the PlayStation Store, you’ll also pick up a set of helm and weapon transmog recipes, a Spectral Hound minion, and three additional character slots.

The Ultimate Evil Edition also includes some console-exclusive features—like Apprentice Mode, which boosts lower level players when they’re playing with higher level players; the Nemesis system, which sends monsters that have slain your character on to wreak havoc in your friends’ games; and more—all of which make playing with your friends even more challenging and rewarding.

We’ve also teamed up with Sony to bring PS3 and PS4 players some exclusive content: a Nephalem Rift inspired by The Last of Us, and a larger-than-life transmog armor set based on Shadow of the Colossus. If you haven’t seen these yet, you should check them out at our blog.

For players who’ve been holding off on bringing justice to Diablo on console, now is the perfect time to join the fray, as the Ultimate Evil Edition is a maxed-out version of the game, with Diablo III and all of the latest updates for that, plus all of the new content that we launched with the Reaper of Souls expansion. And if you’ve already played Diablo III on console, I have good news for you as well: you’ll be able to transfer your characters over into this new release and continue your adventures—even across console generations.

One more cool piece of news for PS4 players: the next-gen console architecture makes it much easier for us to offer ongoing patch support for the PS4 version of the Ultimate Evil Edition. This means that as we continue to patch the game on PC, we’ll now be able to roll out related patch content, as appropriate, on PS4 as well. It’ll take some additional time beyond the PC patch rollout, but we’ll get them to you as quickly as possible.

After slaving away in the deepest depths of the Burning (development) Hells, I’m excited that the game is almost here and ready for you guys to play. Slay well, nephalem, and we’ll see you in Hell!

The trouble with importing PC saves is that the existing versions of (console) Diablo and (PC) Diablo are quite drastically different. A lot of items were added/removed from both versions of the game (Lets use Staff of Herding as an example) so importing PC data could scramble all kinds of things.

Plus, the console import is effectively just adding the expansion pack to an existing game (as PC users were already able to do). Importing a PC save to Console would be more like Duplicating a character as you could continue to use both with the latest content… and then people would start complaining that you couldn’t sync your characters etc.

Then there’s the fact that console saves are local, PC are cloud based, both use a different database format… the list goes on.

I can see why people would want to import their PC saves, but it’d be a technical nightmare. I just see it as a opportunity to try out a new character :)

Actualy NO! On Blizzard site they said it will be everything till 2.0.5 patch and it will get a day 1 patch to 2.0.6 – so no deep rifts, no goblin treasury and no seasons :/ I don’t get it … and exactly as in previous version they propably wont make further patch avaible – my only question is WHY? They mess it up – AGAIN :(

As some one who never stopped playing the pc version, even through the horrid days of auction house and crap loot drops, this is a must for me. I got it on PS3 and it definitely works great with the controller. I would’ve loved some PC progress brought over because we know Blizzard can do it but this will do just fine. Also need some news on when the UK can pre-order digitally.

Hey.Anyone knows anything about languages available?Will it be the same as with the PS3 version where you had only one language and it was dependable on which region/which country you bought the game or there will be more than one available?Thanks.

Same thing happened with the Digital Guardian Edition of Destiny, it wasn’t available to preorder for a while. But it appeared eventually, so this should too. Only problem is that it’s out next week! If people want this game for launch, they pretty much have to get their physical order in for Tuesday so it can be dispatched Wednesday and recieved Friday. Not much time~

Please price it up already and have it available for preorder. Leaving it one week before it dues out is stupid. I mean you have games available for preorder that are not out until sept/nov and this is out in 2 weeks and there’s nothing on the store…

So the game will be 2.0.5 and will have a day one patch to 2.0.6 – WHY ? You mess it up – AGAIN! Nice job … hope this time you will release patches for this game – not like the previous version … but propably you won’t! So we get half of the addon for a price of a full game – YEAH – $ONY!

Patches are coming, although they will be released slightly after the PC version of patches, the devs have said withe the easier architecture of PS4 we are able to patch the game unlike with the previous gen

Will RoS also come available as add-on only? Since I already bought Diablo 3, I’m not paying for the same game twice.PSN price is rediculous indeed, I’ve found a dutch retailer who sells it for 36.99, but I still think I’m being ripped off since I’m only interested in RoS.

Nothing wrong, the bigger gamefile is like the uk retail Disk with all languages, the disk version is 41GB installed.Blizzard conformed, the wrong size 58/63GB (eurogamer)I am sure the 20GB game file is english only, so faster download for most people.

otherwise, with your logic the us version can only be played with 2-4 players and not solo (which is incorrect) and also the eu version would not be able to be controlled using a dualshock 4 or have online play.

I would pre-order the digital version, if only they make it available on Qatar’s playstation store :/ For whatever reason, pre-order of digital version is available in every other country / region (including Middle East) but for Qatar… Did they forget about this country? :S

We currently have Destiny, Battlefield & Dragon Age game pre-order options available, but for Diablo III:/

I preorderd d3 on ps3 at a price of 600 DKK. A week later it was only 500 DKK. And now you want me to pay for the game again??? Not gonna happen. Nice way to treat customers. Now i know why i play Wildstar.

I purchased this game for ps4, but then i discovered an awful thing: the whole game was only in spanish and i couldnt seem to switch to the original language (english) or my actual language (brazilian portuguese). It disappointed me. For that, i asked for a refund. Too bad, because i was really looking foward to play it on ps4. I hope they release a language pack to allow players to choose whatever audio language/subtitles they want, as it is on PC.